A decent site to have a look at streaming radio stations is
shoucast.com..Real player plays them (as does X Multimedia system).

Typically if XMMS skips files you have a permissions or file system problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: chrish

To: Debian User
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: xmms skips all files
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 09:28 -0300, Francisco Borges wrote:
Sorry I took a few days to return to this. Unexpected (unrelated)
problems in the last few days...
» On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 08:24PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote:

>I would clear the play list. Then try just one file. If that does not
>work, can you play that one file with another player?

Loading only one file still does not work as well. The same file can be
used with amarok (which I don't dare to use normally because amarok is
waay too buggy).

Maybe you don't have the rights on those files... Do they belongs to the
same user who launch xmms?

I own all files, I have read and write access to them.
» On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:02PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:

It just seems to skip anything it can't play for whatever reason. If
the files are really there (not just there, on the path that xmms is
looking for them), check your audio settings, and the
presence/non-presence of audio daemons, as Aurélien suggested.

I tried all possible audio playing plugins:
OSS driver
Esound Output
Disk Writer
ALSA
These are all marked as 1.2.10.
Thanks for all the suggestions and attention anyway...
At the moment I'm also taking suggestions on other mp3 players and
decent web radio being broadcasted in Real format :-|
Just tried to get mpd to work and failed...
Cheers,
Francisco.

I had this problem with Ubuntu. XMMS would play ok if started as root but
not myself.
do a ps -aux and make sure there are no processes running that shouldn't be
(or have hung).
In my case it was Evolution crashing that had not freed up the audio
hardware/mixer/whatever so XMMS could use it.

Oh yeah ... Amarok..Buggy?? Best media player on ANY platform that i have
ever used. Feel very smug about this piece of Free Software.

Chris

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